Articles Tagged with ''OSHA violations''

Inspectors witnessed employees and subcontractors lacking fall protection on multiple occasions and two separate sites.

Fall Protection – General Requirements remains at the top of the list for the 13th year in a row.

The settlement agreement requires Dollar Tree and Family Dollar to conduct a comprehensive, nationwide assessment of the root causes of the violations OSHA has repeatedly cited at multiple stores, with a plan to identify causes and make operational changes to correct them within a two-year period.

OSHA inspections at Dollar General stores commonly find aisles, emergency exits, fire extinguishers and electrical panels blocked by stored merchandise and other materials, and boxes stacked unsafely. 

These hazards and the proposed penalties assessed after these inspections now have the Tennessee-based, Dollar General Corp. and Dolgencorp LLC facing more than $16 million in fines since 2017.

While working the overnight sanitation shift at an Ohio food processing plant, a temporary worker suffered critical injuries that led to an amputation after falling into an industrial blender he was cleaning.